Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics & German Studies, and Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)
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phone: 734.764.8018
Education/Degree:
Columbia University, Ph.D. (Political Science)Columbia University, M.B.A.
Columbia University, M.A. (Philosophy)
Columbia University, B.A.
Highlighted Work and Publications
From Property to Family: American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion
Andrei S. Markovits, Katherine N. Crosby
Description from Publisher: In the wake of the considerable cultural changes and social shifts that the United States and all advanced industrial democracies have experienced since the late 1960s and early 1970s, social discourse around the disempowered has changed in demonstrable ways. In From Property to Family: American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion, Andrei Markovits and Katherine Crosby describe a “discourse of compassion” that actually alters the way we treat persons and ideas once scorned by the social mainstream. This “culture turn” has also affected our treatment of animals... See More
Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States
Andrei S. Markovits, Emily Albertson
The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book, Sportista, Andrei S. Markovits and Emily Albertson examine the significant ways many women have become fully conversant with sports—acquiring a knowledge of and passion for them as a way of forging identities that until recently were quite alien to women. Sportista chronicles the relationship that women have developed with sports in the wake of the second wave of feminism of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The changes women athletes have achieved have been nothing short of revolutionary... See More
Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann
Andrei Markovits and Lars Rensmann take readers into the exciting global sports scene, showing how soccer, football, baseball, basketball, and hockey have given rise to a collective identity among millions of predominantly male fans in the United States, Europe, and around the rest of the world. They trace how these global--and globalizing--sports emerged from local pastimes in America, Britain, and Canada over the course of the twentieth century, and how regionalism continues to exert its divisive influence in new and potentially explosive ways. Markovits and Rensmann explore the complex interplay... See More
Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America
Andrei S. Markovits
While George W. Bush's policies have catapulted anti-Americanism into overdrive, particularly in Western Europe, Markovits argues that this loathing has long been driven not by what America does, but by what it is. Focusing on seven Western European countries big and small, he shows how antipathies toward things American embrace aspects of everyday life--such as sports, language, work, education, media, health, and law--that remain far from the purview of the Bush administration's policies. Aggravating Europeans' antipathies toward America is their alleged helplessness in the face of an Americanization... See More